"His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick."

What figurative language device is being used in this sentence?

Interpret this quote: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Interpret this quote: "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience" (Atticus, chp. 11).

Interpret this quote: "She [Mrs. Dubose] said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody..."

Which theme connects to the following quote: "You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: just hold your head high and keep those fists down."

“I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.”

“You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quarter at home to bring you, and you can’t use any stovewood.”

“There’s some folks who don’t eat like us, but you ain’t called on to contradict ’em at the table when they don’t. That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?"

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

“Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.”

“Through all the head-shaking, quelling of nausea and Jem-yelling, I had heard another sound, so low I could not have heard it from the sidewalk. Someone inside the house was laughing.”

“You are too young to understand it, but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father."

“When we went in the house I saw he had been crying; his face was dirty in the right places, but I thought it odd that I had not heard him.”

“Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one’s mine, I guess. You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down.”

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”

“Naw, Scout, it’s something you wouldn’t understand. Atticus is real old, but I wouldn’t care if he couldn’t do anything—I wouldn’t care if he couldn’t do a blessed thing.”

“According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

"And you--what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady!"

"I cleaned up the flowers for her and said I was sorry, but I ain't."

"Take him, Mr. Finch. This is a one-shot job."

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em. But remember. It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"And something else...They'd been sewed up. Not like a lady sewed 'em, like something' I'd try to do. All crooked."

"You're starting off on the wrong foot in every way, my dear. Hold out your hand."

"He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout 'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him."

"Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage."